Naked truth
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Wherever deceptions are constitutive for a culture, wherever life in society succumbs to a compulsion for lying, there really speaking the truth has an element of aggression, an unwelcome exposure. Nevertheless the instinct for disclosure is stronger in the long run. Only a radical nakedness and bringing things out in the open can free us from the compulsion for mistrustful imputations. Wanting to get to the "naked truth" is one motive for a desperate sensuousness, which wants to tear through the veil of conventions, lies, abstractions, and discretions in order to get to the bottom of things. I want to pursue this theme. A mixture of cynicism, sexism, "matter-of-factness," and psychologism constitutes the mood of the superstructure in the West, a twilight mood, good for owls and philosophy."--Critique of Cynical Reason (1983) by Peter Sloterdijk |
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The naked truth is a metaphor used to denote an idea which is presented without decoration, honestly, but also put bluntly or harshly.
As in:
The naked truth may also refer to:
Art
- La Vérité (1870, "Truth") by Jules Joseph Lefebvre
- Nuda Veritas (1899) by Klimt
- The Naked Truth: Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka And Other Scandals (2005)
The expression is found in English as early as the 16th century[1].
See also